Re: [Evolution] Local store for IMAP accounts

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 09:52, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 16:35, Richard Zach wrote:
> > > The code still needs some work :-/
> >
> > Yes.  I had to use evolution over a dialup line for a few weeks, and it
> > wasn't the best user experience.

Its also *really slow* in my experience (as soon as you get anything
with attachments).

> > 1. The "work offline" state is not persistent. If you go to "work
> > offline", then exit evolution, then start up again, it'll be in online
> > mode.  That means, you can't start evolution (and work offline) without
> > bringing up the ppp link first.  If there's no network connectivity,
> > evolution should perhaps go into offline mode anyway, regardless of
> > wwhether you were offline when you last exited or not.

Hmm, does cancelling the connection and changing to offline mode work at
all ...?

> > 2. I haven't figured out when this happens, but every so often,
> > evolution will query the server for the headers of the entire inbox
> > (it'll say "opening folder", "downloading header information for new
> > messages" etc in the status line. In the process, it loses all the
> > cached messages; when you go offline now you can only look at the
> > messages that you've opened/previewed since evolution rescanned the
> > folder.
>
> the IMAP server probably changed the UIDVALIDITY tag, which means that
> the IMAP server has assigned brand new UIDs to each message in that
> particular folder. This can happen at any time.
>
> The only thing we can do is re-download all the headers.

And ... lose all the cached messages.

*if* that is the cause, then there isn't much we can do about it.

> > 3. The last (most recent) message in the folder is not avaliable
> > offline.  Get a new message, select it so it shows in the preview pane,
> > then go offline. Now select another message (which is cached), then the
> > most recent one again and you get a "not available" error.
>
> only the INBOX is cached in 1.0.x, I think 1.2.x will do any folder(s)
> you choose.

Yeah but thats irrelevent :)  All messages you view, in any folder,
should be cached.  Just sounds like a bug, although it sounds a bit
weird, because afaik messages are stored on disk and then viewed from
there (then again maybe they're not).